Learning Partners

What is a Learning Partnership?

A Learning Partnership is a broad term used to describe groups of committed individuals, students, and teachers who work together in equal exchanges to facilitate opportunities for learning, understanding the world around us, and advancing academic achievement for everyone involved.

Who can become a Learning Partner?

Anyone! Our aim is to build a community of students, teachers, learners, tutors, and mentors to help one another foster and facilitate continuous learning collaboration through mutual and beneficial exchanges. We aspire to engage students and participants through cross cultural connection between classrooms and communities, sharing our talents so that learning will be at its maximum benefit and optimal comfort for all.

How You Can Help!

A Few Ideas….

Connect through Skype with students
Coordinate and plan interactive activities, sing a song, share experiences, and build relationships through personal connections.
Create writing activities like friendly letters, penpal exchanges, poetry and short stories.
Art activities: posters, metal art projects, picture books
Providing ideas for teacher’s lessons in French
Boy Scouts and Girl Scout project and service activities
For 4H Groups- gardening, seeds, planting or livestock project ideas and support

Any new ideas are welcome and appreciated! Please contact us.

Girl Scout Sarah Sharrin working on her Gold Award Project. Her fellow girl scouts learned about Haiti, and our school and teachers learned from the materials she sent!

Lynn Villa, our education coordinator and middle school teacher from Minisnk, NY worked together with another teacher to send these wooden alphabet blocks for our teachers — Lynn Villa, middle school teacher from Minisnk, NY worked together with another teacher to send these wooden alphabet blocks for our teachers

Middle school teacher Lynn Villa's class made friendship flags to send to out school after skyping with the second grade class — Middle school teacher Lynn Villa’s class made friendship flags to send to out school after skyping with the second grade class

Wisguens with pictures of penpal friends. We've had many schools and individuals write back and forth with penpal letters! — Wisguens with pictures of penpal friends. We’ve had many schools and individuals write back and forth with penpal letters!